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by mountainofdeath 2594 days ago
Plenty of reasons. I've used them to kick the tires on various things without needing to go through the install. Their images are distributed to many cloud providers so it took all of 5 minutes to get going.

Now, for long term, high-availability usage, it might not be the best idea but for many users it's "good enough".

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